Amnesty International condemns the Bahraini court’s decision to execute two activists

Amnesty International condemned a Bahraini court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of opposition activists for allegedly killing a policeman in a bombing in 2014.

Amnesty International condemned a Bahraini court’s decision to uphold the death sentence of opposition activists for allegedly killing a policeman in a bombing in 2014.

Lynn Maalouf, director of Middle East Research at Amnesty International, confirmed in a statement that “Muhammad Ramadan and Hussein Musa should not have been convicted on the basis of an alleged confession extracted during torture.”

Maalouf called for the ruling to be canceled, calling on the Bahraini authorities to “hold those responsible for their torture” accountable.

For its part, the London-based Bahrain Center for Rights and Democracy denounced in a statement the Bahraini Court of Appeal’s decision to support the death sentence against the two young men.

“If the Court of Cassation, which is the highest court in Bahrain, upholds the verdict, they will be at risk of execution,” Syed Ahmad al-Wadii, head of the center, said in a statement.

Ramadan and Musa were sentenced to death in late 2014.

Since 2011, the Bahraini authorities have been pursuing their opponents, arresting hundreds of them and executing dozens.